God take care of this monarch as well, especially since her protectors
last week seemed astonish ingly inept at doing so. In an incident that
London's Daily Express scathingly called "the most gross and
scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign,"
Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and
forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor
had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and
electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the
palace grounds.